EP Committee wants to amend '.EU' Regulation (Euractiv.com) The European Parliament's Industry Committee adopted a recommendation for the EP plenary to amend the draft Regulation on the implementation of the .EU top level domain name. http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/?1100=1&204&OIDN=1502879 http://www.euractiv.com/ndbtext/infosoc/doteu25jan2002.rtf Neverflysaa.com: Does SAA Have a Case? (allAfrica.com) South African Internet attorneys report that South African Airways' threat to take a disgruntled passenger to court could result in a complex legal wrangle. The case arises from an annoyed SAA passenger, Vernon E Six of Texas, who has built a Web site (www.neverflySAA.com) to air his views on the alleged poor service of the airline. http://allafrica.com/stories/200201290528.html VeriSign Revamps Choice Dot-Com Names Sale Plan (Newsbytes) Internet addressing giant VeriSign Global Registry Services has unveiled a revamped version of its controversial plan to redistribute some of the most appealing dot-com domain names as they expire. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174040.html WIPO arbitration on neo-nazi use of domain names (ICANNWatch) Der Spiegel reports (in German) that WIPO has handed over the domain names bundesinnenministerium.com, verfassungschutz.org to the German government. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=531 US-Neonazi muss Web-Adressen abtreten (Der Spiegel) Gerhard Lauck, selbst ernannter Oberführer der "NSDAP/AO", wurde von der Wipo abgewatscht: Irreführende Adressen wie "bundesinnenministerium.com" wird es bald nicht mehr geben. Mit Geschick gelang es Otto Schily, eine US-Adresse stillzulegen. http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,179467,00.html Sex.com Loser Claims Poverty (Wired) The man who took credit for turning the domain name Sex.com into a multimillion-dollar porn empire now says he is too poor to afford toilet paper. In a motion filed in federal court this week, Stephen Michael Cohen, the former operator of the website Sex.com, asked a judge to set aside a ruling requiring him to pay $65 million in damages to the site's current owner. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50104,00.html http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own!Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 00:00:00 UTC
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